ya, I've been a Lol'er for almost 2 years now, really enjoy it. Just couldn't get into HoN, the announcer pack was so obnoxious, and all of the fixes to remove didn't work for me. Hear too many people saying that DOTA is the superior of them all, so I gotta check it out. But I'm guessing it is a fanboy thing as to what is the better game? If its all structured the same, I'll be having a hard time deciding which one to stick with....

The action RTS has definitely become my genre of choice as of late, though the RTS has always had a special place in my heart.

DOTA 2 is like the only Valve game I'm not interested in. I'm pleased they've done it to prove they can do more than just FPS games having said that, they're very very good at doing FPS games. I'm sure it is quite fun but I'd rather have seen Half Life 3 appear than DOTA 2.

Dota 2 is a very well put together game. They took all the balance and thought that went into Dota and pretty much ported it to its own system away from warcraft. It runs great, its lots of fun. They added in the Bot fighting stuff and their bots are ALOT smarter than the LoL ones.

They carried over the TF2 idea of getting items for your characters. So as you play you will get items to randomly drop. They are all just art changes they don't change anything else about your character.

Now the bad side... i really dislike the rage that goes into these games. Its the same as LoL so if your use to it there it shouldn't be to bad. If you can get 2 or 3 friends on at the same time the games are pretty fun. If you are pubbing then expect to be frustrated or frustrating somebody else.

Not sure how I feel about DOTA after a night of gaming. Didn't really have any issues getting into the game, read as much as I could about crossing over from LoL into DOTA. The gameplay seems much more sluggish, the lighting is way too dark, and the animations are muted making it difficult to see what is going on around you. I don't know if this was just a settings issue, but by default, things were really hard to see. I think I'm going to be sticking to what I know, and keep running with LoL.

I started playing DOTA soon after it began as a Warcraft III map. I stuck with it all the way until HON came out, at which point I jumped ship and haven't looked back.

DOTA 2 feels slow, and I don't like the incredibly brown/grey color palette that makes everything look the exact same. I don't really have anything against LoL, but despite its giant player base, I just can't get into it. It feels like a more "friendly" version of DOTA/HON where there aren't as many stuns, disables, and abilities that generally just absolutely own you.

The thing I always liked about DOTA that the designers have carried over to HON is that when you see a new hero, if you don't immediately see something and say "oh wow, that seems broken!" the hero probably sucks hahaha.

On a relevant note, started playing it the other night and its just as I remember it, Brilliant. The map is the same one I used to play all the time which helps so I knew where things were. The only bit I need to get used to is the slightly changed shop system but I can slowly get my head around that

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